UNL Solutions

Challenge

SoftSolutions is an Italy based company that produces software solutions for financial markets since 1997. SoftSolutions’ platforms for operativity on Fixed Income markets have been adopted by a number of financial institutions and brokers all over Europe.  

The client challenged UNL Solutions to develop the international trading platform for participants of the financial markets, which offers them all the necessary functionality, ensures high-quality work of the platform and hence the efficiency of the organization's activities on the market.

Solution

UNL Solutions  has created the platform based on The Twelve-Factor App methodology which includes best practices in building web applications. Our developers have  implemented it in the Java 8 language with Swing toolkit, Java FX technology has been used for creating rich GUI applications. From the point of view of  business management, the platform is built on the netbeans platform with use of Drools as a Business Rule Management System.  Some of the competitive advantages of this trader's solution are as follows:  

• high quality, functionality and reliability;

• quoting, for live and indicative prices market making;

• hedging;

• exchange connectivity natively integrated;

• bond pricing with market monitor views;

• integration with international electronic securities markets;

• risk and Position Keeping at desk level for intraday real time update;

Challenge

DevInterface is an Italian Dedicated Development Center with huge experience in  designing and developing web applications and services connected to it. 

The client’s task for UNL Solutions was to make a web based platform which would be accessible from all devices.  Organization’s owners should have been able to freely ask to register their organization and have a back office panel where they can manage their organizations. There also should have been a similar backoffice panel for admins where they can manage owners, public contents and global platform configurations.

Solution

In the process of building, our developers have created several user interfaces with special functionalities for each of them: public, organization, administrator. The platform admin can manage all public contents (pages, CMS) and system configurations all users, approve or reject the registration of new organizations / authorities, deny access to the system to some users and see for every organization its balance. While an organization owner can manage all organization data (activities, objectives, users, expenses) and visualize some useful statistic graphs or pdfs.  Main features of the platform are:

• reliable transaction;

• high-performance;

• reliable replication mechanisms;

• backoffice panels’ rich functionality;

Challenge

Kvikna is a technical and scientific software development company based in Iceland. Their medical products are used by many clients across the USA, UK, and Scandinavia. When Kvikna required more workforce for advancing their products they faced a challenge of finding the needed resources.

The Icelandic market is short of strong IT specialists. Also, the client needed a rare tech expertise (WPF) which was hard to find locally. Since its foundation, Kvikna kept their development in-house. The management felt skeptical about the idea that a remote developer could blend into their team. After meeting with our director, they decided to try.

Our solution

Based on the client's requirements we carefully handpicked and purpose hired an extremely strong developer. Not only has our developer the needed expertise, strong English and 10 years of experience in .NET under his belt. He has spent the last 3 years working on projects for a medical sphere. The client was naturally surprised to see a candidate of such a perfect match.

For a quick start, our developer visited the client’s office to meet and work with the internal team (7 members in total). He got knowledge about the project and its architecture, watched the product’s demonstration in real time and real operating conditions. He quickly adopted all the tools and even client’s working hours.

Upon the return, our developer keeps close contact with the team, being managed directly by the PM. Our developer works at our office, but as for the rest, he is client’s full-time employee and a part of his internal team.

Challenge

Corevist is a US-based company developing SAP software products for B2B and integrating them into their business. When we started our cooperation, their main product was at an early stage. Corevist had already assigned their first clients. However, they lacked strong Ruby expertise for growing the solution further.

Hiring all the needed specialists locally required a significant budget. Our client looked to establish a reliable long-term team that would help them reduce the IT costs and advance their business.

Our solution

The client interviewed one developer for the Team Lead position. They gained confidence in his strong skills and assigned 2 more Ruby developers and a QA specialist. Once Corevist had seen that the team delivered the needed results and that there were no issues with communication and understanding each other, they started to expand the team.

Within a year the team has grown to 14 members. They improved the quality of their product and acquired more clients. The team expanded to more technologies including Magento and Frontend. Now they have 17 members in their team including Ruby, Magento, Frontend and QA specialists. The team is integrated into the daily development, upgrade and support of the client’s products.

Cooperation with UNL Solutions saves this client over $500.000 a year compare to staffing developers locally in the USA.